Sleep All Summer Tab

Artist: The National
Song: Sleep All Summer
Tabbed by: Andrew P
Here's a sketch of the National and St. Vincent's lovely cover of Sleep All Summer
(by Crooked Fingers, originally).
I'm not going to take a stab at the horns but otherwise it's reasonably complete.
Capital letters and ...'s in the vocals give the chord changes.
Things between lines of ///s are simultaneous.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-7-9-|0-----0-0-2-4-|5-----5-5-4-2-|0-------------|
Vocal
weary
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-5-5-|4-----4-4-4-4-|2-----2-2-2-2-|0-----0-0-0-0-|
Vocal
SUN, sleep toNIGHT, go CRASHing into the Ocean
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Electric Guitar
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------4-|
b|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-5-5-|4-----4-4-4-4-|2-----2-2-2-2-|0-----0-0-2-4-|
Vocal
...cut the line that TIES the tide and MOON, ancient and BLUE
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
A|E|D|E
Electric Guitar
e|--------------|4-----------2-|3-----------0-|4-------2---4-|
b|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
g|2-----------2-|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-5-5-|4-----4-4-4-4-|2-----2-2-2-2-|0-----0-0-0-0-|
Vocal
...we take our EMpty hearts and FILL them up with BROken things
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|E|
Electric Guitar
e|--------------|4-----------2-|3-----------0-|4-------2---4-|
b|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
g|2-----------2-|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-5-5-|4-----4-4-4-4-|2-----2-2-2-2-|0-----0-0-0-0-|
Vocal
...to hang on HUMMing wire like CHEAP lamps down a DEAD end street- close your weary
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|Bm|E|Bm|E|
Electric Guitar
e|2-------------|0-------------|2-------------|4-------------|
b|3-------------|0-------------|3-------------|5-------------|
g|4-------------|1-------------|4-------------|4-------------|
d|4-------------|2-------------|4-------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|2-------------|--------------|2-------------|7-------------|
e|--------------|0-------------|--------------|--------------|
Vocal
EYES, but everytime we TURN away, until the winterTIME, it hits me like a TIDAL wave, and I would
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|D|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|0------0-0----|0------0-0----|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|--------------|--------------|
Vocal
CHANGE for you but babe that doesn't MEAN I'm gonna be a better MAN, give the
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|D|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|0------0-0----|0------0-0----|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|--------------|--------------|
Vocal
Ocean what i took from you so ONE day you can find it in the SAND, and hold it in
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|Bm|E|
Bass
g|--------------|----------------|
d|--------------|----------------|
a|2------2-2----|----------------|
e|--------------|0------0-0-2-404|
Vocal
YOUR hands aGAIN
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|E|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|2------2-2----|0------0-0----|
Vocal
...cold ways kill...cool lovers...strange ways we USED each other
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|E|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|2------2-2----|0-----0-0-2-4-|
Vocal
...why won't you FALL back in love with ME, e-e-E
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|E|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|2------2-2----|0-----0-0-----|
Vocal
...ain't no way we're gonna FIND another...the way we SLEEP all summer
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|A|E|D|E|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5------5-5----|4------4-4----|2------2-2----|0-----0-0-2-4-|
Vocal
...so why won't you FALL back in love with ME, e-e-E
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|F#m|E|D|A|
Electric Guitar
e|--------------|-------------|-------------|----0-------0---|
b|--------------|-------------|-------------|--2---2---2---2-|
g|--------------|-------------|-------------|2-------1-------|
d|--------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|
a|--------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|
e|--------------|-------------|-------------|----------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|0------0-0----|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|2------2-2----|0------0-0----|--------------|5------4------|
Vocal
...combing over BROKen cross i HELD on YOU
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Acoustic Guitar
|F#m|E|D|D|
Electric Guitar
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
b|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|4-------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|0------0-0----|0-------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|2------2-2----|0------0-0----|--------------|--------------|
Vocal
...haunted by the GHOST of something NEW...
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
I don't know what the horns are actually doing here, but here's a little riff that I
like to put over this bass break:
Electric Guitar
e|5-------5-7-9-|4-------4-5-7-|2-4-5-4-2-4-2-4-|0-----------|
b|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------|
g|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------|
d|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------|
a|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------|
e|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------|
Bass
g|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
d|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
a|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
e|5-----5-5-7-9-|0-----0-0-2-4-|5-----5-5-4-2-|0-------------|
Vocal
curtains
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
And now you basically do it again! Without the bridge, and some new lyrics:
FALL, fashions FADE, an ENDless summer Over
...another tide to LAUNCH an autumn MOON over the DUNES
...there must be a BEtter way to pull a WHOLE apart and keep a WORLD from caving in
...another way to WHILE away from YOU, frozen and BLUE
replace "hits me like a tidal wave" with "surges like a tidal wave"
replace "ways we used each other" with "ways we love to suffer"
Also, I know the electric in the second verse is different; it's basically just the
same thing an octave down.
And, the last repeat of "why won't... with me" is not over |A|E|D|E|. It's just the
bass going |F#|E|D|nothing|.
Have fun!

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